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April 30 - May 1, 2024
If you are alive, you will experience pain. This is inevitable. No escape. But we do have a choice about how much we suffer.
Pain is just pain. It comes, it goes. But pain plus our resistance equals suffering. And this can go on forever if we want it to!
Whenever you find yourself narrowing the entire realm of possibility down to just two options, you are, by definition, in all or nothing thinking. You are artificially setting up a trap for yourself, and deliberately shutting out other perspectives. When you indulge in either/or thinking, you suffer.
A mindset shift comes when we realize that we can, in fact, live good lives and suffer.
The mind is a wonderful servant, they say, and a terrible master.
The energy you free from ruminating over what will not change, can be used to either create what you want – or appreciate how your life is already great just the way it is.
Nietzsche claimed, “to live is to suffer, and to survive is to find some meaning in suffering.”
He who knows how to suffer has mastered everything.
you can think of emotion as e-motion – energy in motion. Every time you feel something, remind yourself that an emotion’s job is to move.
